Juliana O. Tillema, MPA

The authors used health care claims and survey data to identify a strategy that might promote life satisfaction while advancing equity in an insured population.

Among HealthPartners plan members, musculoskeletal, psychosocial, and neurologic conditions create the greatest burden to current health; diet offers the greatest opportunity to improve future health scores; and 42% report a high level of well-being.

When we weighted health insurance claims with a disease burden score, we were able to generate valid estimates of disability-adjusted life-years.

Although team-based care improved cardiovascular disease risk factors, it had a negative financial impact on a primary care practice.

Patients with abdominal or back pain identified 21 outcomes important to them, but the reported outcomes are quite different from the symptom and function outcomes studied by researchers.

Becoming a medical home appears to increase physician and staff job satisfaction, but it also risks decreasing patient satisfaction with access to care.